breakthrough.

it's not a coincidence that i read joel 1:14-15 yesterday:

¹⁴ Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. ¹⁵ Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.

because later at night i went to a church with mary and her english fellowship at yonsei, because IHOP-KC came for a conference called "breakthrough 2009"

allen hood, the president of the Bible school in KC spoke. i remember him at one thing... he was really loud and powerful. a bit overwhelming, but yesterday it was good. he reminded me of things i knew, (on Jesus' coming, the church becoming ready, praying for the nations) but he also said, how angels worship God all day and all night... but when a third of the angels fell away... Jesus wasn't sent to die for angels, he was sent to die for us. that hit me. we limit ourselves to worshipping God, we limit ourselves to going to church on sundays (just barely) but there's always more we can do.

ive been doing Bible studies in Shinchon UBF with Hannah on John 9. Jesus heals the blind man. Jesus said while it is day we are to do the work of God. Jesus is the light of the world, so if Jesus is in our hearts, then we can always do the work of God. it is 'day' while we are on earth, so we can always be doing the work of God through everything we do.

(things are clicking for me now.. im connecting the dots of what i've been learning. God's timing is crazy)

so yesterday's worship was in korean. but it was crazy.
koreans are crazy. they pray ... like no other. people were dancing, laughing, speaking in tongues, weeping, physical manifestations of the Spirit.. yeah, it was haha a bit overwhelming, intense, but so good. this is what Heaven will be like, constant worship, cuz we were made by love, to love our Father.

my thoughts are all over the place. my notes were all over the place last night too, so i can't really describe what i'm thinking, but God is moving. He is stirring something up, and the Holy Spirit is just going to do some crazy things this summer. it's exciting because i'm beginning to see more clearly why i'm in korea. i want to pray for this nation, to be a leader in the prayer and worship movement -- but at the same time there's a lot of darkness... after we came back from the conference we got off a random subway stop because at 12:30am the subways stop running. GG. so we got a taxi. i felt like i was in a typical korean drama or movie... drunk people everywhere. it's just sad to see people so easily taken over and ruled by alcohol. drinking culture here is insane.

anyway, i'll update later... i have english class, prayer meeting, go to bookstore, then tutor, then meet up with some 2nd gens.


these pictures hahahah suck :P ill upload later on.
theresa and maria we be eating paht bing soo yay
then mary and i in the friggen taxi cuz the subways stopped!

okaye bye!

from carlos.

PRAISE THE LORD!
When you are sad or lonely --

PRAISE THE LORD!
When you are hungry --

PRAISE THE LORD!
When you lose someone you loved --


PRAISE THE LORD for everything that happens in your life whether good or bad ...
For the chains that seem to bind you, serve only to remind you that they drop powerless behind you when you praise Him!


and always remember that life is such a PRECIOUS and beautiful gift from God ...

When someone gives you a gift the correct thing to do is return the favor
So, make your life a shining example to others by glorifying God in everything that you do!
no matter what the circumstances PRAISE THE LORD!
and give yourself as a worthy gift to God.

yours in Spirit and truth
C.M Diaz
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I appreciate this note on facebook.
Praise the Lord! Even though I'm in Korea... it's supposed to be a fun place ; but at the same time I know I'm here for more than just 'fun' it sucks being away from my family and friends whom i love. I take them all for granted and when i don't hear from them i'm wondering what everyone is up to.

i need to learn to become independent.
i'm reliant on talking to my friends, i think God's training me to depend on Him.

i'm finishing up my reflection on yesterday's message, then i'm going to get a cell phone, then i'm going to center, then i'm going to a shopping center. okay bye.

(i like emails *ahem*) hehe

california post.

it's been a while since i've updated blogger.
i haven't had much to say so i didn't write.

but... california was bomb, so it definitely deserves a post.

so, california was sweet because its cali and it was the first time i flew with my best friends somewhere (other than going to europe with amanda). we didn't do a lot, instead we just ate... and ate... and ate:
- kimchee jji gae
- i had a bit of mexican food (we missed out on that)
- in-n-out
- frozen yogurt (my favorite)
- dduk-bo-sam
- soon-du-bu
- japanese noodles

i'm sure we had more but i can't really remember all that we ate.

so the first day we got there, we just had in-n-out, and went to stephen's house.
then we woke up really early to get to LA for Albert's graduation at USC.
there were so many people at the graduation, we were all hungry in the morning so we missed Arnold Swartzeneger's speech for ... burger king. so lame.

then we went to albert's ceremony, we were so loud... it was fun. after the graduation we took pictures for like 2 hours, it felt like that at least, and then we went to the KCM reception. after the reception ... i can't remember what we did. i think we hungout for a bit, then got yogurt and soon-du-bu.

day 2 - beeeeech. we were all excited to go to the beach, and by the time we got there, it was cloudy and a bit chilly. so since we couldn't swim, the boys thought it'd be fun to throw us in the water, when the plan was to get sam wet because it was his birthday. (fail) then we ate kimchee jjigae (so good) and then saw the orphanage (such a good movie).

day 3 - had church ... hung out, cut john's hair, ate dduk-bo-sam, pulled a prank on jake and his car, then went to noraebang. yay, that was fun -- then we went to LA. this was a crazy night also... we went to jack in the box at like 3or 4am, then came back to the apartment, then after eating john was hungry again, i was craving chicken nuggets so we went to carls jr + mcdonalds... 3 fast food restaurants in like 1 hr. so gross, haha but so good.

day 4 - attempt #2 at the beach. we went to bolsa chica beach, it was nice but SO WINDY. so we went back to LA.. had dongkas, and then went bowling, our team won, cuz of brian hwang. then we had boba. so good.

day 5 - j-town (noodles and air freshener), then we had yogurt, then we went to santa monica (soooooooo nice, my favorite part of the trip, just hanging out at the beeech).

overall, im glad we went. we laughed a lot, we talked a lot, just milked it a lot.
good times with good friends, always :)

bye

going to korea in a few hours

had the time of my life in california

i love my friends to death.

:)

omgus.

i easily compare my friends in waterloo to the ones i have in ubf/america/group of 6
not good right?

still, these past few days with moving out + dealing with stuff it gets tough.

i don't even know what i was going to write about anymore.
blog fail.

seriously i need to get my head together before i go. and usually cleaning helps me do that!
so i'm going to spend my whole day cleaning/packing my room. God be with me so that i don't dwell on reminiscing on things i find and to not waste time, ahhah cleaning and packing is so time-consuming because i'm a pack rat and i hate throwing things away. but it's time... i must -.- so sad hehe.

anyway, i can think people are being weird and not talking to me and just yeah, but we all go through change. and if change happens and we can't embrace it and we let it affect our friendships... then we'll never have constant friends. they'll always change, because we're always changing. so if friendships are true they won't change because people change. (i learned that with my best friends amanda and somi + also sarah,aug,alb,john,hans). yeah change makes me unconfortable and a lot of change happens even when i don't plan on it... but you face it rather than running away from it.

i will post pictures from east-coast/somi's visit soon. i hope.

stress. is not cool

-___-
ah.

stay calm!!
lots going on right now, but the best thing to do is remain c a l m...

leaving for california + korea soon.
yay

nothing else to say hehe.